Chambers: Highlands Ranch native Troy Terry is red hot for Anaheim Ducks. He might don red, white and blue in upcoming Olympics – The Denver Post

Colorado home-grown talent Troy Terry of the Anaheim Ducks is making North American headlines throughout the NHL. In February, he could do the same internationally at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

The former Littleton Hawks forward who went on to play for the triple-A Colorado Thunderbirds, U.S. National Development Team, and the University of Denver Pioneers is off to a sizzling start that could lead to him making the U.S. Olympic team for the second time this time with full NHL participation.

Terry, 24, entered the weekend on a league-leading 13-game points streak, producing 11 goals and 19 points in that stretch. Only three other Ducks players have had longer points streaks Corey Perry (19 games in 2009-10) Teemu Selanne (17 in 1998-99) and Ryan Getzlaf (15 in 2007-08 and 14 in 2013-14).

Terry, who had two goals and an assist in Thursdays 7-4 victory at Seattle, is the Ducks top-line right-winger. He leads the Ducks in scoring and entered the weekend ranked fourth in NHL scoring.

The Highlands Ranch native is a big reason why the rebuilding Ducks have won six consecutive games and stand second in the Pacific Division.

He is doing a great job. I mean, hes working, Getzlaf, the Ducks longtime captain, told reporters after Terrys overtime goal that beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Tuesday.

Terry, who was named after former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, became the second Colorado native to play for the U.S. mens Olympic team in 2018 when he was loaned by DU in a year the NHL didnt send its players to Pyeongchang.

At age 19, Terry was second in U.S. scoring with five points in five games. The Americans were eliminated by the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.Denver-born goalie John Grahame was Colorados first hockey Olympian, playing one game in the 2006 Games in Torino.

Terry wasnt projected to make the U.S. Olympic roster before this season, after producing just seven goals in 48 games as a third-line forward for a weak Ducks team last season. But hes now a leader among Anaheims excellent young talent.

Terry produced one of the most remarkable performances in USA Hockey history when he went 4-for-4 in shootouts to lead the Americans to the gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Championship in Montreal. And after being one of the few NCAA players asked to play in the 2018 Olympics, hes become a young household name for USA Hockey.

Terry is already a household name in Colorado. The Ducks visit the Avalanche on Nov. 13 at Ball Arena, and Terrys family and friends will require hundreds of tickets.

Former Ducks GM. Former Anaheim general manager Bob Murray resigned last week amid allegations of workplace misconduct, stemming from the NHL hotline memo each NHL team received last month in the wake of the Chicago Blackhawks wrongdoings with former prospect Kyle Beach in 2010. The hotline is already effective.

Murray promised to seek treatment for alcohol abuse.

If the NHL hotline continues as advertised, bad people will continue to be weeded out of the league.

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Chambers: Highlands Ranch native Troy Terry is red hot for Anaheim Ducks. He might don red, white and blue in upcoming Olympics - The Denver Post